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United Arab bank selects Lune to embed AI into mobile services

United Arab Bank (UAB) has announced a strategic partnership with Lune, a leading UAE-based fintech company specialising in AI-driven transaction enrichment and financial data analytics solutions.

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How A2A Innovation is Advancing The Fight Against Fraud

Speaking to FinextraTV in this interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Mastercard and Luke Reynolds, SVP, Financial Crimes, Mastercard discuss the impact of fraud and payment scams and look to address their prevention. As well as covering the many forms of fraud, such as APP fraud and romance scams, Forest and Reynolds explore the innovations currently available to help reduce its impact. They provide an honest optimism whilst remaining aware of the existing complexities within fraud prevention, bringing attention to the impact of the latest account to account fraud prevention methods including risk-scoring and Mastercard's UK A2A Sandbox.

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AppDome drops IDAnchor for mobile device protection

Appdome, the leader in protecting mobile businesses, today announced IDAnchor™, the industry’s first Customer Identity Protection (CIP) solution for the mobile economy.

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CaixaBank develops an AI agent to help customers explore products in the app

CaixaBank has launched a generative AI-based agent to help users of it mobile banking application learn details about products, compare the different available options, and choose which one best suits their needs.

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How Overcoming Payment Complexity is a Balance of Innovation & Stability

In the middle of EBAday 2025 in Paris, Bana Akkad-Azhari, Head of Treasury Services, BNY joined the FinextraTV studio to provide insights into the growing complexity in the payments industry, especially in what is now a 24/7 world. Explaining how banks need to not only advance their own processes, but find the partners that can enable the technological agility they need to keep up, Akkad-Azhari emphasises the need for the technology to be scalable and, eventually, automated. While seeing the end goal being the heightening of the customer experience, Akkad-Azhari also mentions that banks need to know how to balance innovation with stability.

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MB Way enables NFC payments on iPhone

MB WAY, Portugal’s leading mobile payment app, is now the first euro-denominated application in Europe to offer NFC (Near Field Communication) payments on iOS devices.

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Starling eyes NYSE listing

UK-based challenger bank Starling is considering listing on the New York Stock Exchange as part of its US expansion plans.

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New payment platform QwikPay launches in Australia

Australia's newest and most disruptive payment platform has officially launched, with QwikPay promising to eliminate the friction, fees and outdated infrastructure that have long held back innovation in the way Australian consumers pay and businesses get paid.

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What Is Prompting The Growth in Demand For Pay by Bank?

While attending Money 20/20 2025 in Amsterdam, Todd Clyde, CEO, Token.io spoke with FinextraTV about Pay by Bank and what is driving its current growth. Defining what Pay by Bank is, Clyde showed how several initiatives and efforts across the world are contributing to a rise in its demand, how the technology itself has evolved, and what this might mean for the future.

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Mexican digital bank Klar raises $190m

Carey Olsen's corporate team in the Cayman Islands has advised Mexico-based digital bank Klar on its US$190 million Series C funding round, which values the company at over US$800 million.

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What Will The Next Generation of the Investing Landscape Look Like?

Whilst attending the Communify Fincentric Experience 2025, Brian Casey, CEO, Westwood Holding Group, joined the FinextraTV studio and shared his thoughts on the event, the importance of networking and how exciting the next generation of investing will be. As part of this next generation, Casey says investors will continue to look for objective advice and guidance against the backdrop of a plethora of options.

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Five more Belgian banks join the European Payments Initiative

Five big banks in Belgium have joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) with the intention of rolling out the Wero digital wallet and instant account-to-account (A2A) payment application to customers in the first half of next year.

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Zopa opens Manchester office

London-headquartered digital bank Zopa is opening an office in Manchester as it bids to create a 500-strong workforce in the city.

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Are Mobile Wallets the Future of Cross-Border Payments Modernization?

Speaking to FinextraTV while attending Money 20/20, Stanley Wachs, Director of Business Development and Head of France, Benelux, Switzerland, and Africa at Dandelion Payments, shared his thoughts on how mobile wallets are impacting the modernization efforts of banks and fintech's. Wachs positions mobile wallets as a key component of the future of cross-border payments and of progressing the modernization of payment infrastructure.

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Verification of Payee: The role of RVMs & Conformance

Joining the FinextraTV studio at EBAday 2025 in Paris, Paulo Barbosa, COO, Banfico helped to provide an understanding of what a routing and verification mechanism (RVM) is and how it is impacting the verification of payee landscape. Barbosa provided an up-to-date look at what is currently evolving ahead of the October deadline, whilst sharing clarifications around the role RVM's play alongside banks to provide greater speed, experience and compliance.

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Can Agentic AI Help to Reduce Financial Crime in Banking?

Joining the FinextraTV studio at Temenos Community Forum 2025, Adam Gable, Senior Product Director, Temenos provided an insight into the way that agentic AI is helping to combat financial crime. Discussing the challenges inherent in fighting financial crime amidst a high-volume, high-speed market, Gable emphasises how well-considered agentic AI tools can provide an investigative element as fast as the speed of modern fraud.

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Hokkoku and Soft Space to roll out SoftPOS tool that supports stablecoin transactions

Hokkoku Financial Holdings is working with Soft Space to develop a SoftPOS product that enables merchants to accept both contactless card payments and regulated stablecoin payments using only a smartphone or tablet.

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What Are The Key Priorities for Banks in The Middle East & Africa?

Whilst attending the Temenos Community Forum 2025 in Madrid, Santhosh Rao, Managing Director, MEA, Temenos and Mohamed Al Zamil, Chief Operating Officer, Reem Finance joined the FinextraTV studio to discuss banking trends in the Middle East and Africa. Explaining the rapid changes happening in these dynamic markets, Rao and Al Zamil examine the impact of new digital banks, evolving regulations and how to service gaps in traditional processes.

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Spendbase launches digital banking and virtual cards

Spendbase, a spend management platform that helps businesses save on software and cloud costs, is launching a new suite of financial tools that take spend control to the next level: Digital Banking and Virtual Cards.

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South African fintech Lesaka to buy Bank Zero

Lesaka Technologies, the South African fintech firm formerly known as , is set to buy South African digital-only institution Bank Zero Mutual Bank in a deal worth R1.1bn (US$62m).